For most Web surfers, Flash is the blinking, animated frosting on Web sites. Now Macromedia wants to make it the whole cake. The software maker is pitching Flash MX, the new version of the software to ...

Our new print issue features “How YouTube Ate TV,” an oral history of the video-sharing site’s impact on entertainment, culture, and business as told by dozens of eyewitnesses past and present. As we ...

"A function that does not automatically play Flash content on a web page", which seems to be enabled by default from the next version of Google Chrome, is not to stop all the Flash contents, but it is ...

Those who would find fault with Adobe for living in the past need to rethink their positions, because the company is serious about Web and mobile technologies. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

A message to uninstall Flash appears above a Flash-based work of art by Rafaël Rozendaal titled "Future Physics," from 2007. (Screengrab by Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times) It was a tale of ...

The Flash platform—that thing Adobe is always asking for you to update—is on life support. True, Adobe last released an update of their Flash Player less than a month ago, fixing the latest round of ...

The next revision of the HTML web language will make Adobe's Flash technology largely redundant, according to the chief executive of browser company Opera. The open web standards included in HyperText ...

The public battle between Adobe and Apple over bringing Flash to the iPhone, and now iPad, platforms has heated up the debate over the life expectancy of Flash as newer technologies, specifically the ...

When Flash content embedded in Web pages will not play, there are a few generally successful options for dealing with the problem. Make sure QuickTime is not attempting to play Flash Apple's QuickTime ...